American Sociology: Worldly Rejections Of Religion And Their Directions
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At the crossroads of faith and secular modernity, American Sociology: Worldly Rejections of Religion and Their Directions presents a bold and provocative argument: that the entire enterprise of American sociology was built upon a deliberate, systematic rejection of religious thought. Arthur J. Vidich and Stanford M. Lyman trace the intellectual genealogy of American sociological thinking, chronicling how its founding figures consciously dismantled theological frameworks and replaced them with secular, empirical worldviews — a transformation that would come to define the discipline's identity and cultural authority. The work argues with unflinching rigor that this secularizing impulse was not merely academic but deeply ideological, shaping the moral and political contours of American public life. Vidich and Lyman write with scholarly precision and analytical depth, drawing on a vast sweep of intellectual history to illustrate the unintended consequences of sociology's break from its religious roots. A masterwork of critical intellectual history, this volume leaves the reader questioning whether a discipline born from the rejection of faith can ever fully escape the shadow of what it abandoned.
Author: Arthur J. Vidich And Stanford M. Lyman
Format: Paperback
Genre: Society & culture
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Markings: Previous owner
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
At the crossroads of faith and secular modernity, American Sociology: Worldly Rejections of Religion and Their Directions presents a bold and provocative argument: that the entire enterprise of American sociology was built upon a deliberate, systematic rejection of religious thought. Arthur J. Vidich and Stanford M. Lyman trace the intellectual genealogy of American sociological thinking, chronicling how its founding figures consciously dismantled theological frameworks and replaced them with secular, empirical worldviews — a transformation that would come to define the discipline's identity and cultural authority. The work argues with unflinching rigor that this secularizing impulse was not merely academic but deeply ideological, shaping the moral and political contours of American public life. Vidich and Lyman write with scholarly precision and analytical depth, drawing on a vast sweep of intellectual history to illustrate the unintended consequences of sociology's break from its religious roots. A masterwork of critical intellectual history, this volume leaves the reader questioning whether a discipline born from the rejection of faith can ever fully escape the shadow of what it abandoned.